Ariella Kaeslin
Ariella Kaeslin 
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 Switzerland
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| discipline | Apparatus gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Special device / s: |
 Leap
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| Society: | BTV Lucerne | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer: | Zoltan Jordanov | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | 11th October 1987 (age 32) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Lucerne, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 167 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ariella Kaeslin (born October 11, 1987 in Lucerne ) is a former Swiss gymnast .
Career
Kaeslin grew up in Meggen and was accepted into the national team in 2001. She started for the BTV Luzern and trained at the sports school in Magglingen under the direction of Zoltan Jordanov. She was part of the Swiss sports promotion program and a student at the Alpenstrasse grammar school .
Athletic career
Kaeslin is multiple Swiss champion in individual all-around, team competition and in the individual disciplines. In addition, since 2002 she has participated in four European and three world championships. In 2007 she won the all-around at the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival in Frauenfeld. At the Summer Olympics in Beijing , she reached fifth place in the jump and 18th place in the all-around final.
At the European Championships in Milan in 2009 , Kaeslin was the first Swiss gymnast to win a medal in an international competition with bronze in the all-around competition. The following day, she won the gold medal on the jumping horse in the apparatus finals and thus became the first Swiss female gymnastics champion. At the 2009 World Championships in London, after finishing eighth in the all-around event, she won silver on the jumping horse and became the first Swiss medalist at a World Championship. At the 2011 European Championships in Berlin, she again won a bronze medal in jumping horses, her favorite discipline. Rather surprisingly, she reached the final on the balance beam and took 5th place. In the all-around competition she reached rank 8.
On July 11, 2011 at the age of 23, a year before the Olympic Games in London , she announced her retirement from top-class sport. The reasons she cited were the great hardships and hardships that sport brings with it.
Kaeslin has been a member of the See-Club Luzern rowing club since March 2012 . At the Swiss Championships on the Rotsee on July 7th, 2013 she finished sixth in a double scull alongside Claudia Sutter.
successes
- European Championships 2005 in Debrecen: 4th place jump
- European Championships 2006 in Volos: 6th place jump
- World Championships 2006 in Aarhus: 9th place jump
- European Championships 2008 in Clermont-Ferrand: 4th place jump
- 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing: 5th place jump
- European Championships 2009 in Milan: gold medal jump and bronze medal all-around
- World Championships 2009 in London: Silver medal jump and 8th place all around
- European Championships 2010 in Birmingham: 5th place jump and 6th place all around
- World Championships 2010 in Rotterdam: 4th place jump and 8th place all around
- European Championships 2011 in Berlin: bronze medal jump, 5th place balance beam and 8th place all-around
Awards
- Davos crystal 2008
- Central Swiss athlete 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Swiss Sportswoman of the Year 2008, 2009, 2010
literature
- Christof Gertsch, Benjamin Steffen: Ariella Kaeslin - Suffering in the light: the true story of a gymnast . 1st edition. NZZ Libro , 2015, ISBN 978-3-03810-027-0 (144 pages).
Web links
- Official website of Ariella Kaeslin
- Ariella Kaeslin at the Swiss Gymnastics Federation (PDF file; 54 kB)
- Ariella Kaeslin at gymbox.net
- Richard Hegglin and Patrik Müller : The big interview with Ariella Kaeslin in: Switzerland on Sunday July 16, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christof Gertsch: Be a woman, stay a girl. In: NZZ Online. March 12, 2008, accessed November 1, 2009 .
- ↑ All-around bronze to Ariella Kaeslin. In: NZZ Online. April 4, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Also EM gold in horse jumping for Kaeslin. In: NZZ Online. April 5, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Anja Knabenhans: With two leaps to silver. In: NZZ Online. October 18, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009 .
- ↑ Ariella Kaeslin ends her career surprisingly. In: NZZ Online. July 11, 2011, accessed July 11, 2011 .
- ↑ These are the reasons for the resignation. Interview in: Blick.ch from July 11, 2011
- ↑ "I'm satisfied": Ariella Kaeslin rows next to the podium . In: Blick Online , July 7, 2013, accessed on July 7, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Kaeslin, Ariella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne , Switzerland |